Curare

Arrow-poison

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(WOORARI)

Muscular paralysis without impairing sensation and consciousness. Paralysis of respiratory muscles. Reflex action diminished . Debility of the aged ( Baryta ) and from loss of fluids. Catalepsy. Nervous debility. Trismus. Glycosuria with motor paralysis. Curare decreases the output of adrenaline. Vomiting of bile in cirrhosis of liver. Diabetes mellitus, 4th dilution (Dr. Barkhard).

Mind

Indecision; no longer wishes to think, or act for herself.

Head

Lancinating pains all over head. Head drawn backward. Falling out of hair. Brain feels full of fluid.

Eyes

Sharp, stitching pains over right eye. Black spots before vision. Ptosis of right side.

Ears

Noises; unbearable earache. Lancinating pains start from ears; extending down to legs. Swelling of lobes of ear.

Nose

Ozæna. Tubercles on nose; fetid lumps of pus.

Face

Facial and buccal paralysis. Tongue and mouth drawn. Red face. Tongue and mouth drawn to right.

Female

Dysmenorrhœa. Menses too early, during menses, colic, headache, kidney pain. Leucorrhœa, thick, purulent, offensive.

Respiratory

Threatened paralysis of respiration on falling asleep. Short breath. Short dry cough; provokes vomiting, followed by fainting. Chest sore to pressure. Very distressing dyspnœa .

Extremities

Tired pain up and down spine. Arms weak, heavy . Cannot lift the fingers. Weakness of hands and fingers in pianists. Legs tremble; give way in walking. Debility; paralysis. Catalepsy. Favors development of corns. Reflexes lessened or abolished.

Skin

Leprosy. Dirty-looking skin. Boils. Tubercles on nose. Liver spots. Blood oozes through. Itching.

Modalities

Worse , dampness, cold weather, cold wind; 2 am; right side.

Relationship

Compare: Cystisin (motor paralysis); Conium; Causticum; Crotalus; Nux . Curare antidotes Strychnin .

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Curare across the other classic books

Curare appears in 4 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“A South American (Guayana) arrow-poison, of variable strength and composition, supposed to be made from different species of Strychnos (toxifera, Schomb ., cogens, etc.), or of Cocculus; by some it is asserted that animal poisons are added. (Serpents' fangs have been found in the imported article). One authority…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Curara, Woorara. Woorali. Hoorali. Oorari. (An arrow poison used by South American Indians. Accounts differ as to its actual composition, into which the juice of different species of Strychnos are said to enter, or of Cocculus toxiferos with serpent poison. Others have said it is prepared from the venom of toads. In…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“A powerful poison used by the South American Indians upon their arrows. Supposed to have been first introduced into Europe by Sir Walter Raleigh, in 1595, who became acquainted with it in Guiana. "Authorities differ as to the composition of this poison. Probably several totally different kinds of poison are designated…”

Curare in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Curare in 395 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (43), MIND (42), FEMALE GENITALIA (32), BACK (24), STOMACH (22).

SKIN - DISCOLORATION - brown,liver spots
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - aching - Foot - lying in bed
PERSPIRATION - BLOODY - night
BACK - PAIN - aching - lying
EXTREMITIES - PARALYSIS - Shoulder
EXTREMITIES - PARALYSIS - Upper Arm - deltoid muscle
STOMACH - VOMITING - green - night
VISION - COLORS before the eyes - black - spots - reading,after
CHEST - NUMBNESS - Sides, - left
EXTREMITIES - HEAVINESS, - Upper Limbs - playing piano agg.
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Upper Limbs - evening
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Fingers - playing the piano
MOUTH - PARALYSIS - Tongue - drawn to - right
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Hand - painful
FACE - PAIN - paralysis,with
HEAD - PAIN, - stitching - Forehead - eyes,over - right
EYE - PARALYSIS - of lids - upper - right
PERSPIRATION - STAINING the linen - bloody
VERTIGO - EXERTION,on - vision
FACE - PARALYSIS - left

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